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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Global Frameworks, Local Contingencies: Policy Translations and Education Development in India
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Mukhopadhyay, Rahul; Sriprakash, Arathi – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2011
Policies and programmes pursuing the universalisation of elementary education (UEE) in developing nations have been influenced by a set of complex forces in international, state, and local arenas. This paper explores how a large-scale standardised assessment programme shaped by international and market-oriented discourses has been differently…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Educational Policy
"Joyful Learning" in Rural Indian Primary Schools: An Analysis of Social Control in the Context of Child-Centred Discourses
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Sriprakash, Arathi – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2009
Efforts to improve the "quality" of education for all in government primary schools in India have seen a shift towards child-centred teaching. This paper examines the "Joyful Learning" programme, an example of a pedagogic reform implemented in rural primary schools in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. Through an empirical analysis of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Elementary Education